2007 Annual Dinner with Trevor Phillips

The Lunar Society 2007 Annual Dinner, hosted by the Lord Mayor, was held in Banqueting Suite of Birmingham's Council House on 14 November 2007.

Our speaker was Trevor Phillips OBE, Chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights spoke on Knowledge, Difference and Inequality: The Potential for Combuston. The full text of his speech can be read here.

Born in London, Trevor Phillips went to secondary school in Georgetown, Guyana before returning to London to study chemistry at Imperial College London where he was president of the students' union. He was elected NUS President in 1978. Since then he has had a varied career in both media and politics. He was elected to the London Assembly on 4 May 2000 and served as chair until February 2003, when he resigned his seat to take up the Chairmanship of the CEHR . He has been chair of the Runnymede Trust and commissioner for a number of other charities. With his brother, the crime writer Mike Phillips, he wrote Windrush: Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain.

The Right Hon David Miliband MP was our after dinner speaker in 2006. His speech can be downloaded here.

Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, was our speaker at the Society's Annual Dinner in 2005.